[S&W, p. OT 419] Some scholars have suggested that both Daniel and Judith may actually be a disguised historical account of Antiochus Epiphanes [S&W, p. OT 462].

The king came to the throne as a child, and the reign began in the face of internal rebellions and foreign invasions. Eventually the Alexandrian forces succeeded in repelling the invaders, and ...

The martyrdom of Eleazar (6), the execution of the seven sons and their mother at the hands of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (7) and the gruesome death of Razis (14) are especially memorable.